Attorney Profile

Experienced Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Attorney

Attorney Robert D. Curran has been practicing law since 1987, with a clear focus on advocating for personal injury victims and wrongful death survivors. He has handled thousands of claims and cases, achieving favorable outcomes for many satisfied clients through aggressive settlement negotiations and trial verdicts. His many years of experience in representing insurance companies gives him tremendous insight into how they work, and what the most effective way is to present your claim in order to get them to realize the full extent of how your injury has impacted your life, maximizing your recovery.

At Curran Law Firm in Springfield, Missouri, our strengths include a commitment to very thorough, knowledgeable accident investigation and strong resources for substantiating medical consequences. We are well equipped to handle your auto accident or medical malpractice case, pursuing all avenues to prove fault and maximize the compensation you receive.

Mr. Curran provides free consultations and serves clients on a contingency basis — which means you will not owe any attorney’s fee unless we are successful on your behalf. For more details on his background as a lawyer, you can follow the link below to his profile.

Rob Curran attended Georgetown University in Washington D.C., graduating in 1984 with a Bachelor of Science degree. He then attended Georgetown University Law Center in Washington D.C., graduating in 1987 with a Juris Doctor degree. He then took and passed both the New York and New Jersey bar exams in July 1987.

Upon passing both bar exams, he was admitted to practice law in both New York and New Jersey. He began practicing law at Olwine, Connelly, Chase, O’Donnell & Weyher, a large Park Avenue law firm in New York City.

In 1990, Rob left New York City to start a litigation law firm in partnership with his father, Robert D. Curran, Sr. The two practiced altogether as Curran & Curran from 1990 to 2001, located in Paramus, New Jersey. During that time, they engaged in all aspects of litigation practice, focusing primarily on personal injury matters. They represented the victims of others negligence as well as representing insurance carriers defending against personal injury claims.

Rob’s experience having been on both sides of the fence gives his clients a significant edge in litigation. His experience as an insurance defense attorney is invaluable to helping him represent victims of injury. This vast experience as a defense attorney means that Rob knows what it’s like to be on the other side, and can anticipate the defenses that the insurance company lawyers will use and the strategies and means that they will employ.

Rob’s clients also benefit from his experience as a Municipal Court Judge. He served from 1997 to 2000 in Paramus, New Jersey, a very high-volume municipal court located only 10 miles from New York City. The experience of being on the bench is also invaluable to him in providing his clients now with the highest quality legal representation. It has given him the additional and highly important edge of seeing things from the judge’s perspective in addition to both the defense attorney’s perspective and the plaintiff’s perspective.

Rob is also very proud to have been accepted into and graduated from the prestigious Gerry Spence Trial Lawyers College, located in Dubois, Wyoming. In 2011, he attended this intense month-long college, taught by the best and brightest trial attorneys in the nation. Only attorneys representing individual people are accepted. Lawyers who represent insurance companies or prosecute on behalf of the state are not eligible. Gerry Spence is widely acknowledged to be the most successful trial attorney in the United States and he personally teaches students at the Trial Lawyers College his methods and techniques.

Rob has been married for over two decades, and he and his wife Julia are thrilled to have four wonderful children.